Living on Death Row:
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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lose, Eric (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: El Paso LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC 2014
Series:Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
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Online Access:FAW01
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Item Description:Living on Death Row represents a 13-year ethnographic study of men awaiting their execution while confined on Ohio's Death Row (DR). Lose was granted unprecedented access to conduct confidential interviews in a supermax environment. Slowly he developed a mutual trust with the inmates, and they began to open up about their crimes, lives, hopes, fears and impending executions. Reading Death Row statistics can be a blasé experience to some, upsetting to others. But nothing compares to confronting the rampant injustices, horrendous misconceptions and lies about the culture of Death Row. A few are
Why and how -- The baptism -- James Goff: routine, rules and abject boredom -- Frances Anne [Frank] Spisak: gender and sex -- Jerry Hessler: violence and mental illness -- Gregory Esparza: survival -- Donald "Duke" Palmer: defense and salvation -- Ronald Ray Post: very stupid,very lucky or very smart?
Physical Description:259 pages
ISBN:9781593327767
1593327765

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